William Howard Taft (1857 – 1930)
27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930).
One of the marvelous things about him is that he is strong enough to force the men who dislike him the most to stand by him. By far he is the strongest man before the people to-day except Roosevelt. I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man. I think it was one of the strongest things about Roosevelt. He never tried to minimize what other people did and often exaggerated it.
Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies.
I am a Unitarian. I believe in God. I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach — it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.